How feasible or practical is astrophotography using an electronic superzoom on a scope?

I've been contemplating astrophotography by means of using a superzoom camera attached to a telescope. Just how feasible or practical would such a setup be? Probably the most major problem with this idea is that the lens of a superzoom extends quite a lot, meaning that when you mount such a camera to a telescope and simultaneously play around with the zoom function, it’s very likely that you’ll damage the camera, because if you start out at the widest focal length, the lens is usually shorter than it is at it’s maximum extent, which means that you can’t simply put the camera flush against the eyepiece; the internal motor or mechanism which controls the zoom function will most likely become damaged. I still wonder, however, if anyone has ever successfully done so using careful, tedious measures? It’s a good thing that my camera’s not a superzoom, because my telescope adapter is too short to accommodate such a lens extension, in which scenario the other lens focal lengths won’t be flush with the eyepiece, which risks stray light from coming and interfering with what the camera sees. However, apart from this. there are at least a few other problems that are posed by superzoom cameras; such cameras, at least most of the time, have A) Small maximum apertures, B) Relatively Small sensors, and C) Image quality is generally inferior to cameras with prime lenses, not to mention that I have never heard of a superzoom with RAW imaging format before. I need to do prime focus, so that there are practically no optics, to just use the OTA as a lens, but even focused at infinity, I couldn’t obtain focus on the moon.

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